.. . I I I . j u.:. Tha Immutability of Go o. G1ds worke are remitfe: ' but when hee is once hurnb led,then he will fay with S. Paul, Lor.d,wh.te 111ilt thou hat'eme UJ doe ? and I will doe it, whatfo– cver i.t is, andwbatfoev~r thm1 wouldel.l have me to fuffer, I will fufter it. He will tAke the Kingdome , of Heat:en hy violence :and then his refolutions continue confiantthat way. For what ·can the wodd and Satan doe to him ? will they take a· · wayhis pleafure from him, his wealth or credit? they are things that hee bath defpifed before : they take nothing from him, but what bee cares not for. It is the.bitterndfe of finne, that makes him now toprize Gods love and favour above all . things. ' ~ . _Thirdly; thoumull: renew thy_ refolutionoft: Renew our re• It ts not enough to fet the heart magood frame folutions. of grace for a day, or two' or for a moneth' but thou muil: have a conftant courfe indoing of 1• it; ever and anon : as the Dutch Men ufe to doe \-v_irh their bankes, they keepe themwith little ·coft, becaufetheylookcnarrowly to rhemj .if therebee but theJeafrhreach, th,ey make it up prefently, otherwife the waterwouldover-flow them,and their Citie!. So thou {houidell: doe with thy hearr,obferve it from day to day,marke what objeCtions come that thou canft not an- ~ fwer, what lulls and defires doe over.ballance ·thee, and Iearne fiill to renew thy reafons and ::c– folutions againfi: them; and this will make thee con{lant, and firme, and 'peremptory ~n well– doing. ~ ------~----- .. ·_.~,~-------~-------------N __ o_w_
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